Lloyd Raines‘ work focuses on collaboration between management and staff to create conditions for highly productive and enjoyable workplaces. He is also passionate about fairness and empowerment in the workplace. Lloyd's twenty-year career includes organizational development, effective communication, coaching, and career development.

Combining accelerated learning techniques with learning organization concepts, Smart Work™ skills and the Syntax Framework of Effectiveness, Lloyd works with large and small groups to draw out and build on the collective wisdom of participants. Modeling the open communication process and effective collaboration tools he advocates, he works to provide safe space for people to take risks, think and act outside the box to create the relationships and cultures they desire for optimal learning and productivity.

Having facilitated hundreds of seminars for seasoned and emerging professionals as well as line staff, Lloyd brings a broad awareness of business issues and group learning dynamics to issues of workplace productivity. Recent or current clients include the Department of Agriculture, the Peace Corps, AOL and EDS. Through his growing list of publications in journals, magazines, and newspapers, he raises questions and shares insights captured in these courses and seminars to support efforts by others with the cultural transformation process. Lloyd earned an MS in justice at American University and a BA in psychology at the University of Maryland.